Publications by authors named "Leleu A"

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have become a revolutionary tool in biomedical research due to their unique in vitro properties and fate versatility. They offer insights into development or genetic disorders, facilitate drug discovery and hold promise for regenerative medicine. Here we generated three hiPSC cells - IPi002-A/B/C - from primary amniotic fluid cells (AFCs) obtained via amniocentesis for the prenatal diagnosis of MARCH syndrome: Multinucleated neurons, Anhydramnios, Renal dysplasia, Cerebellar hypoplasia, and Hydranencephaly.

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  • The Social Odor Scale (SOS) is a 12-item questionnaire designed to assess how people perceive social odors from others, focusing on romantic partners, familiar people, and strangers.
  • The study aimed to validate the SOS in several languages (French, English, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese) and found that its structure remained consistent across these translations.
  • Results revealed differences in social odor awareness by language group, with Swedish participants showing the least awareness and Chinese participants the most, while geographical factors also influenced scores, linking higher latitudes to lower social odor awareness.
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Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of ultra-low dose (ULD) chest computed tomography (CT), with a radiation exposure equivalent to a 2-view chest x-ray, for pulmonary nodule detection using deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR).

Material And Methods: This prospective cross-sectional study included 60 patients referred to our institution for assessment or follow-up of solid pulmonary nodules. All patients underwent low-dose (LD) and ULD chest CT within the same examination session.

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  • Infants use intersensory facilitation, particularly the principle of inverse effectiveness, to help navigate their environment, especially under high unisensory demand.
  • This study investigates whether olfactory cues, specifically a mother's body odor, can enhance visual processing of faces in 4-month-old infants, depending on the complexity of the visual stimuli.
  • Results indicate that maternal odor boosts infants' ability to categorize faces in more challenging visual scenarios, supporting the idea that olfactory information can facilitate visual perception during early development.
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During infancy, intersensory facilitation declines gradually as unisensory perception develops. However, this trade-off was mainly investigated using audiovisual stimulations. Here, fifty 4- to 12-month-old infants (26 females, predominately White) were tested in 2017-2020 to determine whether the facilitating effect of their mother's body odor on neural face categorization, as previously observed at 4 months, decreases with age.

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Objective: The intrauterine balloon tamponade (IUBT) is one of the major tool to manage the postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Previous studies identified factors predicting IUBT failure regardless the mode of delivery. Our aim was to determine if IUBT predictive failure can be determined regarding the mode of delivery.

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Human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) represent an invaluable source of primary cells to investigate development, establish cell and disease models, provide material for regenerative medicine and allow more physiological high-content screenings. Here, we generated three healthy hiPSC control lines - IPi001-A/B/C - from primary amniotic fluid cells (AFCs), an infrequently used source of cells, which can be readily obtained from amniocentesis for the prenatal diagnosis of numerous genetic disorders. These AFCs were reprogrammed by non-integrative viral transduction.

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Voices are the most relevant social sounds for humans and therefore have crucial adaptive value in development. Neuroimaging studies in adults have demonstrated the existence of regions in the superior temporal sulcus that respond preferentially to voices. Yet, whether voices represent a functionally specific category in the young infant's mind is largely unknown.

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Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as 'sub-Neptunes') are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars. However, their composition, formation and evolution remain poorly understood. The study of multiplanetary systems offers an opportunity to investigate the outcomes of planet formation and evolution while controlling for initial conditions and environment.

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Motivation: FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscopy) is a technique to generate 3D images of samples up to several microns in depth. The principle is based on the alternate use of SEM to image the surface of the sample (a few nanometers thickness) and of FIB to mill the surface of the sample a few nanometers at the time. In this way, huge stacks of images can thus be acquired.

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In the current study, we examined the role of task-related top-down mechanisms in the recognition of facial expressions. An expression of increasing intensity was displayed at a frequency of 1.5 Hz among the neutral faces of the same model that was displayed at a frequency of 12 Hz (i.

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Infants' ability to discriminate facial expressions has been widely explored, but little is known about the rapid and automatic ability to discriminate a given expression against many others in a single experiment. Here we investigated the development of facial expression discrimination in infancy with fast periodic visual stimulation coupled with scalp electroencephalography (EEG). EEG was recorded in eighteen 3.

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Visual categorization is the brain ability to rapidly and automatically respond to a certain category of inputs. Whether category-selective neural responses are purely visual or can be influenced by other sensory modalities remains unclear. Here, we test whether odors modulate visual categorization, expecting that odors facilitate the neural categorization of congruent visual objects, especially when the visual category is ambiguous.

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The human brain rapidly and automatically categorizes faces vs. other visual objects. However, whether face-selective neural activity predicts the subjective experience of a face - perceptual awareness - is debated.

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A recent body of research has emerged regarding the interactions between olfaction and other sensory channels to process social information. The current review examines the influence of body odors on face perception, a core component of human social cognition. First, we review studies reporting how body odors interact with the perception of invariant facial information (i.

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Background: Approximately 5000 cases of imported malaria are observed each year in metropolitan France. Guidelines for the prevention and management of imported malaria were published by the French infectious disease society (French acronym SPILF) in 2017.

Objective: Study objective was to describe in a retrospective analysis (2015-2016) imported malaria cases recorded in a Parisian hospital, to analyze the congruence to previous guidelines (2014), deviation in respect to post hoc published guidelines and potential areas for improvement.

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Understanding how the young infant brain starts to categorize the flurry of ambiguous sensory inputs coming in from its complex environment is of primary scientific interest. Here, we test the hypothesis that senses other than vision play a key role in initiating complex visual categorizations in 20 4-mo-old infants exposed either to a baseline odor or to their mother's odor while their electroencephalogram (EEG) is recorded. Various natural images of objects are presented at a 6-Hz rate (six images/second), with face-like object configurations of the same object categories (i.

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Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality world-wide. The arrival of intrauterine balloon devices has revolutionised PPH management. However, it seems interesting to know the situations of failure to improve the management.

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Recognizing facial expressions of emotions is a fundamental ability for adaptation to the social environment. To date, it remains unclear whether the spatial distribution of eye movements predicts accurate recognition or, on the contrary, confusion in the recognition of facial emotions. In the present study, we asked participants to recognize facial emotions while monitoring their gaze behavior using eye-tracking technology.

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The influence of odor valence on expressive-face perception remains unclear. Here, three "valenced" odor contexts (pleasant, unpleasant, control) were diffused while scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded in 18 participants presented with expressive faces alternating at a 6-Hz rate. One facial expression (happiness, disgust or neutrality) repeatedly arose every 6 face pictures to isolate its discrimination from other expressions at 1 Hz and harmonics in the EEG spectrum.

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Introduction: The number of requests for Essure removal has grown continually over recent years. The objective is to describe the symptoms reported after Essure sterilization, methods of removal and results.

Material And Methods: Retrospective and single-centre cohort (Regional university hospital of Lille, France) was conducted.

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The addition of aluminum-based adjuvants in vaccines enhances the immune response to antigens. The strength of antigen adsorption on adjuvant gels is known to modulate vaccine efficacy. However, a detailed understanding of the mechanisms of interaction between aluminum gels and antigens is still missing.

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Sex categorization is essential for mate choice and social interactions in many animal species. In humans, sex categorization is readily performed from the face. However, clear neural markers of face-sex categorization, i.

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